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From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What means bup?
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:40:40
Message-Id: 87zhw7wok1.fsf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What means bup? by Kent Fredric
1 On Sun, Sep 23, 2018, at 21:26 CDT, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > I personally try to use something of the form:
4 >
5 > "Bump version to 12.234.1567"
6 >
7 > Mostly, because it gives some vaguely useful context when reading a
8 > commit summary log, that doesn't necessitate you running "git log -p"
9 > or "git diff" to find out what actually changed.
10
11 ++
12
13 > [...]
14 > All of this is "nice to have" stuff I'd try to gently nudge others into
15 > the direction of, in effort to provide useful information to not only
16 > our users, but to other developers, and our future selves looking back
17 > in the history trying to ascertain the importance of a given version.
18
19 ++
20
21 > [...]
22 > But you can imagine how I get *just* a little bit frustrated when this
23 > is the sort of direction I'm trying to aspire towards, but what I'm
24 > seeing on the list is debates about "bup" vs "bump" :)
25
26 ++
27
28 There is nothing more to add.
29
30 Best,
31 Matthias